Hi trippledubs,

MCE can process a sequence of numbers efficiently. E.g. 1 to MAX_ITEMS. The bounds_only option tells MCE to pass the next starting and ending elements only. Hence boundaries only. IPC occurs once per each chunk_size.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use MCE;

use constant MAX_ITEMS => 200000;

my $n_workers = shift // do {
    die "usage: $0 n_workers\n";
};

sub isPrime {
    my $num = shift;
    return 1 if ($num < 4);
    return 0 if ($num %2 == 0);
    for (my $i=3; $i <= sqrt($num); $i+=2) {
        return 0 if $num % $i == 0;
    }
    return 1;
}

sub task {
    my ( $mce, $seq, $chunk_id ) = @_;
    for my $data ( $seq->[0] .. $seq->[1] ) {
        print "Prime: $data\n" if isPrime($data);
    }
}

MCE->new(
    max_workers => $n_workers,
    sequence    => [ 1, MAX_ITEMS ],
    bounds_only => 1,
    chunk_size  => 200,
    user_func   => \&task,
)->run();

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Regards, Mario

In reply to Re^2: IPC::Msg Fork queue by marioroy
in thread IPC::Msg Fork queue by trippledubs

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